Word: ingrownness
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...looked as if everybody wanted to go to the hospital at once. In New York City, Dr. J. B. Stiefel, medical director of the Associated Hospital Service, complained that people were taking to hospital beds for colds, ingrown toenails, or simply to get a good night's sleep. Most of the 6,511 U.S. hospitals (not counting Army, Navy and Veterans Administration hospitals) had waiting lists...
...teetotalers, and to some other gloomy characters, the British pub is a sink of iniquity, the repository of much that is ingrown, insular and debilitating in British life. For sober students of drinking and human nature, it is the haven and repository of much that is good and warm ing in British life, an important and perhaps the most democratic institution in Britain...
...right time. In 1885, when his peasant mother bore him in Iwate Prefecture, the Samurai grip on the Japanese army had been broken for twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which first exploded upon the white man's world...
When the English invaders divvied up the best Irish lands, Henry settled down on his share, a small estate in the northern part of County Cork. There he established the Bowen dynasty which for 250 years lived defensively on its ingrown clannishness. Those were years of an "intense, centripetal life . . . isolated by something very much more lasting than the physical facts of space...
This New Deal for the rejected is a constructive idea, but it lacks clarity and completeness. It is patently unfair for a man to receive a permanent 1B to 4F exemption on the strength of a broken bicuspid or an ingrown toe-mail, especially if he really wants to enter one of the military services and is unable to pay the necessary medical bills. But under the voluntary provisions of F.D.R.'s plan many a man will retain his hernia and 4F classification rather than be cured and reclassified. Further, the large number of cases caused by malnutrition and improper...